Summary: The Arctic is undergoing rapid and dramatic environmental and social transformations due to climate change. This has ramifications for the entire planet, as change spreads through interconnected global networks that are environmental, cultural, economic and political. Today, with the major thrust of research shifting away from deciphering causes and monitoring trends, the central preoccupation of a growing circle of actors has become the exploration of strategies for responding and adapting to climate change. This book brings together the concerns of leading Arctic scientists in the natural and social sciences, prominent Chukchi, Even, Inuit and Saami leaders from across the circumpolar North, and international experts in education, health and ethics. It highlights the urgent need for a sustained interdisciplinary and multi-actor approach to monitoring, managing and responding to climate change in the Arctic, and explore avenues by which this can be achieved.--Publisher's description.
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ISBN: 9789231041396 9231041398
Contents: Section 1. Ice, oceans and atmosphere. -- Overview of changes in Arctic sea ice cover / Julienne C. Stroeve -- The sea ice is our highway: the importance of sea ice to the Inuit way of life / Duane Smith -- What have we found in the polar oceans during the International Polar Year? / Jean-Claude Gascard -- Cryosphere and climate: the Arctic challenge / Barry Goodison -- Siku-Inuit Hila -- "'The dynamics of human-sea-ice relationships: comparing changing environments in Alaska, Nunavut and Greenland' / Lene Kielsen Holm -- Arctic change in the flow of global warming: need for long-term monitoring observations / Takashi Yamanouchi -- section 2. Biodiversity and ecosystem services. -- Coordinating for Arctic conservation: towards integrated arctic biodiversity monitoring, data management and reporting / Michael J. Gill, Christoph Zo¨ckler and Risa B. Smith -- Connections between Arctic peoples and their environment / Henry P. Huntington -- Wetlands -- threatened Arctic ecosystems: vulnerability to climate change and adaptation options / Tatiana Minayeva and Andrey Sirin -- Norwegian fisheries and adaptation to climate change / Gunn-Britt retter -- Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem services: how the Conservation of arctic flora and fauna program can help / Aevar Petersen. Section 3. Community-level impacts and adaptation. -- Facing the impact of global climate change: recommendations from the Arctic / Aqqaluk Lynge -- Arctic peoples in a changing environment: a humanist's vision / Jean Malaurie -- Coastal and riverine erosion challenges: Alaskan villages' sustainability / Sharon E. McClintock -- Perspective Saami reindeer herders on the impact of climate change and related research / Juvva´ Lemet-Klemetti Na¨kka¨la¨ja¨rvi -- Protecting cultural heritage and community roots / Susan Barr -- section 4. Health and well-being. -- Sustainable development, climate change and human health in the Arctic / Alan J. Parkinson -- Indigenous peoples of the Russian north: social and climatic changes / Larisa Abryutina -- The socio-economic impacts of climate change and sustainable development in Canada's northern communities / Chris Southcott -- section 5. Economic development and social transformations. -- From the Arctic: partners needed / Mead Treadwell -- Greenland's path to overcome global warming / Jonathan Motzfeldt -- Uses of the Arctic Ocean and the future of indigenous cultures / Edward Saggan Itta -- Sustainable development and climate change: challenges and opportunities in the case of Greenland / Marianne Lykke Thomsen -- The Arctic in the new creative age: the Arctic dimension in knowledge economy / Alexander Pelyasov. Section 6. Education. -- Education for Arctic sustainable development / Lars Kullerud -- People on thin ice: the need for education and research in Greenland / Ann Andreasen -- The role of nomadic schools in the revival and presentation of the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples of the North and Arctic / Anastasia Lebedeva -- section 7. Ethics, responsibility and sustainability. -- Sustainable development in the Arctic: a view from environmental ethics / Johan Hattingh -- Continuing ethical livelihoods for Arctic peoples despite change / Ilan Kelman -- Sustainable development of the Arctic: the challenges of reconciling homeland, laboratory, frontier and wilderness / Bernard Funston -- Many strong voices from Arctic and island peoples / John Crum and Ilan Kelman -- section 8. Monitoring systems. -- The need for Arctic data: sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) / Odd Rogne -- Predicting arctic climate: knowledge gaps and uncertainties / Alexander Frolov and Vladimir M. Kattsov -- Observatories for understanding Arctic change / Peter M. Haugan -- Arctic monitoring systems: the challenge for the social sciences / Joan Nymand Larsen.
Papers presented at a conference of the same name, held in Monaco March 3-6, 2009.--Foreword.